The really important thing for Apple will be 'allowing' linux and Windows to run on Apple hardware. I'd *gladly* buy a powerbook to replace my Dell - heck, I almost did - and that was before the posibility of dual booting MacOS and Win. And a nice all in one for mom/pop? Give em an imac with winxp... There are a lot of people out there who will be happy to buy apple hardware and run windows on it... Apple still wins.
Next time you dive you should remember what your instructors taught you - you should be back on the surface when you hit 500 psi, not 70 feet down looking at a 5-10 minute ascent... tsk tsk tsk.
There's no real evidence that hybrids are more efficient than a similar gas powered car would be... In fact, there are several gas or diesel cars that get as good or better real world mileage than a Prius. Much of that is due to the added weight of a hybrid system - it can completely offset the advantage of regenerative braking... Of course it will get better, as engines are optimized for charging rather than on demand power, and battery tech gets more efficient.
In LA it is usually sunny and pleasantly warm; and the last time I looked up the statistics 90% of the population lived within 5 miles of work.
The last time you looked up the statistics must have been in the '20s then, because LA has the most sprawl, and one of the furthest average commute distances of any major city in the US. It may be that 90% of the people that live in your neighborhood live 5 miles from work, but I guarantee that only covers a small portion of those commuting in from the valley, glendale, burbank, or even worse Riverside county. Most people can't afford to live 5 miles from work in LA, so they live 40 or 50...
If I'm willing to work with a foreign criminal, why wouldn't I just hang on to all 100% of the $$? Crooks don't trust other people that far... It's far more likely that the 'scam' is simply a way to get your checking account info so the crooks can drain it directly.
HOA Covenants, Conditions, Regulation and are willfully entered into upon purchase of a home in an HOA. In fact, you have to sign a few documents stating that you have been shown the CC&Rs, and that you agree to abide by them. The reasons for wanting ot live in an HOA should be obvious to anyone who's had a neigbor like this destroy the 'feel' of a neighborhood.
The way I look at it is this - if a bunch of like-minded individuals want to agree to a set of CC&Rs, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
uhhhh, last I checked males were the determinate factor on the sex of the baby. And it's determined long before it matter what a mother eats. Sperm carries the sex of the baby, and the sperm surely can't magically change post fertilization.
Not completely accurate - it's true, the male contribution to the sperm/egg combo does determine gender, however there are factors that can influence which sperm will actually inseminate an egg. Many of these factors are realted to the woman's physiology, and diet could easily play a part in it.
The Y chromosome carrying sperm tend to be faster, but more short lived than the hardier X chromosome carrying ones - think tortoise and hare. If the soon-to-be mother's reproductive organs are slighlty more hostile to sperm than normal, it is less likely that a male producing sperm will make it to the egg, conversely if the environment is hospitable enough, the male will make it there first...
Yet, voting machines produced by Diebold have none of those protections. You know they could build those features into the machines very easily, yet they don't.
Actually, all of the voting machine vendors have paper ballot printouts as options, but most counties didn't want to purchase them - presumably because of the add'l cost of not only the printers/paper, but verifying the votes after the fact. I'm not saying that makes it right, but don't villify the mfr'r when the client (county) is actually the one dictating the specs.
Oh wait, it's fashionable to bash Diebold on/. because the CEO is an evil right wing conservative conspirator - I forgot my place, go ahead and mod me down...
More nitpick time -
THROW ME CLIPS!
Not "the" - that wouldnt have produced the requisite qord to make BA go night night....
My gosh - now I'm pedantic and lame!
Once TiVo gets the bugs worked out of their system (and yes, TiVo has admitted that it's not working perfectly yet), these banners will appear for a grand total of three seconds and only over a specific ad (TiVos FF at 60x).
There won't be a problem with seeing 'when to stop' and such, as the banner will disappear when the ad is over.
Personally, I don't care what's on my screen for those 3 whole seconds, it could be black for all I care.
Frankly, if it's something cool, such as a full length movie trailer or a product I like, then I'll pay attention. If not, I'll still ignore it for 3 seconds like I do now...
Bush & Co. outspent Kerry by more than $40 million dollars. It took me 60 seconds to verify this.
Of course you're neglecting all of the 527 organization spending, which was skewed VASTLY in the opposite direction... The top 5 spenders in that category were all democrat/liberal/progressive, and they alone spent almost as much as each of the two campaigns did. Overall 527 spending was about 80/20 in the favor of the liberal/progressive camp, and that spending dwarfed the 'official' campaign contributions.
Ubiquitous internet access is the modern equivalent of an efficient rail system. Without it, it is very difficult for an area to be competitive - both businesses and wealthy individuals will move away.
First of all, Ubiquitious Internet access != Free WiFi. What business is going to rely on a free WiFi when they can pay a few bucks/day to a competent provider for a more reliable alternative? There is no added benefit to a business to exists where there's free WiFi given it's extremely low cost to implement it yourself, in fact it would be a hassle to deal with...
Secondly, equating something with such a low entry cost as WiFi to a rail system is stupid. Individuals and businesses can't afford to build their own rail systems (yes, there are exceptions, but we know what happened to them), but anyone can get Internet access for their business if they need it. Even my dry cleaners have it!
Gov't should stay the heck out of the Internet business!
With netflix you can keep three movies for a month and they will only charge you $17.95. Blockbuster would have charged you the rental price for those videos (probably $5.99 each), plus the full retail price for them (probably $29.99 each) at the end of the month. That's $17.95 versus $107.94.
To be intellectually honest here, you have to compare similar rental plans, not apples and oranges. BLockbuster offers a rent-by-mail plan like Netflix, and it's $14.95/mo for 3 movies, plus you get 2 free in-store rentals/mo. Soo, if you kept 3 movies for a month it would have cost you $14.95...
I naturally started to use Borgish management methods... What are the most difficult hurdles for a manager geek to jump, and can our personality be used as an advantage in management?
Well, one of the most difficult challenges you face is stop using Star Trek references in every day speech. If you do that, and stop referring to your cell phone as a Communicator, you'll probably do just fine.
Sadly, I think you are misreading the situation. He merely has to start using Kirk-ian management methods! Kirk not only rocked, but he always got the girls too (obdisclaimer - 'getting the girls' is not recommended in a corporate environment), whereas the Borg has been spectacularly unsuccesful in their ultimate goals.
He just picked the wrong model...
If that fails, you can always hand out tribbles as rewards....
only run on the server and never occur within the US infringe
RIM does NOT run the servers - carriers and enterprises do. My company's Blackberry Enterprise Server is not in Canada, neither is Verizon's Web Client server, nor ATTWS/Cingular, or TMobile's (at least for their American network).
Not sure where you get the idea that this can be skirted - either it infringes or it doesn't, but it's definitely being sold in the US.
Granted there are many open hotspots out there, but the easiest to find and most predicatable for the road warrior are all pay-for-play (iPass, tmobile, wayport etc). Given that there's no standard for authenticating to these networks, this kind of thing won't be useable there.
Now for home/office use, it looks great!
This only helps if your DDos is a resource based DDoS attack, such as a connected session flood, request flood, or connection table overflow. SYN floods on the other hand can come from spoofed IPs - it wouldn't take long for a DDoS'er to use your firewalling technique against you force you into firewalling off the entire Internet...
It's simple mathematics - if 5% of the people pay 60% of the taxes, they will be the most affected by any change in the tax laws, up or down.
Try this analogy on for size -
Suppose that every
day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If
they
paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men-the poorest-would pay nothing; The fifth would pay $1;
The sixth would pay $3; The seventh $7; The eighth $12; The ninth $18. The
tenth man-the richest-would pay $59.
That's what they decided to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant
every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement-until one day, the
owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he
said,
"I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20." So now dinner
for
the ten only cost $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we
pay our taxes.
So the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But
what about the other six-the paying customers? How could they divvy up the
$20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?"
The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they
subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth
man would end up being *paid* to eat their meal. So the restaurant owner
suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the
same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh
paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man
with
a bill of $52 instead of his earlier $59. Each of the six was better off
than before. And the first four continued to eat for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed
to
the tenth. "But he got $7!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man.
"I only saved a dollar,
too. It's unfair that he got seven times more than me!" "That's true!"
shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $7 back when I got only $2?
The
wealthy get all the breaks!"
"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get
anything at all. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded
the
tenth and beat him up.
The next night he didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate
without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered
something important. They were $52 short!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college instructors, is how the
tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most
benefit
from a tax reduction.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not
show up at the table anymore.
Excuse me? How is this a privacy *violation*? You'd have to choose to voluntarily provide a fingerprint in a public place, and that's a violation? If I were standing on a street corner asking people to volunteer to have their fingerprints matched to the FBI database, would that be a privacy violation as well?
If they can force this company out of business, it seems to me the next step is to go after the users. You know, the ones doing the acutal "law breaking".
Actually, users wouldn't fall into the DMCA violation category - users didn't develop or distribute 'circumvention' technology. Remember, it's not the copying that's the illegal part, it's the circumvention...
Simple reason - QoS. The Voice calls you make over Vonage or Skype, while often quite acceptable, are delivered via best effort. If your roommate suddenly decides to download the latest LOTR divx and swamps your DSL line, your call quality goes out the window.
This device, and the WAPs that AV will be selling with it, are intended for enterprise use - build out a single 802.11 network for voice and data, at far less cost than a wireless voice network alone would cost (wireless PBX phones and base stations are very pricey).
As for adopting it in your house, well frankly I don't think AV cares. First of all, you'd need about 40k worth of Avaya PBX to get started... It's not really designed for you to fire up your phone at starbucks and get on TMobile's WiFi network - the cellular network is perfectly sufficient for out of office use. This is designed to replace your desk phone when you are roaming around your office/campus.
IPS was a Gartner attempt to generate publicity that even they have disowned.
Disowned? Sure, that's why the Gartner group will no longer be publishing an IDS Magic Quadrant (they're replacing it with an IPS one). Publicity stunt? That's why enterprise customers are flocking to IPS in droves, and former IDS vendors everywhere are frantically trying to play catch-up with those that have been doing prevention from day one (ie the previously referenced TippingPoint).
It only took a quick walk through this year's RSA Security Conference to see that IPS is not only real and here to stay, but it is actually working for lots of people out there.
(ob. disclaimer - I work for TPTI)
You don't need a superconductor, you just need a transport mechanism for potential energy. So far the best solution we have for that is splitting water into Hydrogen and Oxygen. Now all you've gotta do is deliver teh hydrogen to where it's needed.
Nuke power can solve a lot more than just our electricity needs...
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The really important thing for Apple will be 'allowing' linux and Windows to run on Apple hardware. I'd *gladly* buy a powerbook to replace my Dell - heck, I almost did - and that was before the posibility of dual booting MacOS and Win. And a nice all in one for mom/pop? Give em an imac with winxp... There are a lot of people out there who will be happy to buy apple hardware and run windows on it... Apple still wins.
Next time you dive you should remember what your instructors taught you - you should be back on the surface when you hit 500 psi, not 70 feet down looking at a 5-10 minute ascent... tsk tsk tsk.
There's no real evidence that hybrids are more efficient than a similar gas powered car would be... In fact, there are several gas or diesel cars that get as good or better real world mileage than a Prius. Much of that is due to the added weight of a hybrid system - it can completely offset the advantage of regenerative braking... Of course it will get better, as engines are optimized for charging rather than on demand power, and battery tech gets more efficient.
If I'm willing to work with a foreign criminal, why wouldn't I just hang on to all 100% of the $$? Crooks don't trust other people that far... It's far more likely that the 'scam' is simply a way to get your checking account info so the crooks can drain it directly.
HOA Covenants, Conditions, Regulation and are willfully entered into upon purchase of a home in an HOA. In fact, you have to sign a few documents stating that you have been shown the CC&Rs, and that you agree to abide by them. The reasons for wanting ot live in an HOA should be obvious to anyone who's had a neigbor like this destroy the 'feel' of a neighborhood.
The way I look at it is this - if a bunch of like-minded individuals want to agree to a set of CC&Rs, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
Not completely accurate - it's true, the male contribution to the sperm/egg combo does determine gender, however there are factors that can influence which sperm will actually inseminate an egg. Many of these factors are realted to the woman's physiology, and diet could easily play a part in it.
The Y chromosome carrying sperm tend to be faster, but more short lived than the hardier X chromosome carrying ones - think tortoise and hare. If the soon-to-be mother's reproductive organs are slighlty more hostile to sperm than normal, it is less likely that a male producing sperm will make it to the egg, conversely if the environment is hospitable enough, the male will make it there first...
Actually, all of the voting machine vendors have paper ballot printouts as options, but most counties didn't want to purchase them - presumably because of the add'l cost of not only the printers/paper, but verifying the votes after the fact. I'm not saying that makes it right, but don't villify the mfr'r when the client (county) is actually the one dictating the specs.
Oh wait, it's fashionable to bash Diebold on
More nitpick time - THROW ME CLIPS! Not "the" - that wouldnt have produced the requisite qord to make BA go night night.... My gosh - now I'm pedantic and lame!
Once TiVo gets the bugs worked out of their system (and yes, TiVo has admitted that it's not working perfectly yet), these banners will appear for a grand total of three seconds and only over a specific ad (TiVos FF at 60x). There won't be a problem with seeing 'when to stop' and such, as the banner will disappear when the ad is over.
Personally, I don't care what's on my screen for those 3 whole seconds, it could be black for all I care.
Frankly, if it's something cool, such as a full length movie trailer or a product I like, then I'll pay attention. If not, I'll still ignore it for 3 seconds like I do now...
Secondly, equating something with such a low entry cost as WiFi to a rail system is stupid. Individuals and businesses can't afford to build their own rail systems (yes, there are exceptions, but we know what happened to them), but anyone can get Internet access for their business if they need it. Even my dry cleaners have it!
Gov't should stay the heck out of the Internet business!
Sadly, I think you are misreading the situation. He merely has to start using Kirk-ian management methods! Kirk not only rocked, but he always got the girls too (obdisclaimer - 'getting the girls' is not recommended in a corporate environment), whereas the Borg has been spectacularly unsuccesful in their ultimate goals.
He just picked the wrong model...
If that fails, you can always hand out tribbles as rewards....
Granted there are many open hotspots out there, but the easiest to find and most predicatable for the road warrior are all pay-for-play (iPass, tmobile, wayport etc). Given that there's no standard for authenticating to these networks, this kind of thing won't be useable there. Now for home/office use, it looks great!
This only helps if your DDos is a resource based DDoS attack, such as a connected session flood, request flood, or connection table overflow. SYN floods on the other hand can come from spoofed IPs - it wouldn't take long for a DDoS'er to use your firewalling technique against you force you into firewalling off the entire Internet...
It's simple mathematics - if 5% of the people pay 60% of the taxes, they will be the most affected by any change in the tax laws, up or down. Try this analogy on for size - Suppose that every day, ten men go out for dinner. The bill for all ten comes to $100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this: The first four men-the poorest-would pay nothing; The fifth would pay $1; The sixth would pay $3; The seventh $7; The eighth $12; The ninth $18. The tenth man-the richest-would pay $59. That's what they decided to do. The ten men ate dinner in the restaurant every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement-until one day, the owner threw them a curve. "Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily meal by $20." So now dinner for the ten only cost $80. The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes. So the first four men were unaffected. They would still eat for free. But what about the other six-the paying customers? How could they divvy up the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his "fair share?" The six men realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would end up being *paid* to eat their meal. So the restaurant owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay. And so the fifth man paid nothing, the sixth pitched in $2, the seventh paid $5, the eighth paid $9, the ninth paid $12, leaving the tenth man with a bill of $52 instead of his earlier $59. Each of the six was better off than before. And the first four continued to eat for free. But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings. "I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man. He pointed to the tenth. "But he got $7!" "Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got seven times more than me!" "That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $7 back when I got only $2? The wealthy get all the breaks!" "Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. "We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits the poor!" The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up. The next night he didn't show up for dinner, so the nine sat down and ate without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important. They were $52 short! And that, boys and girls, journalists and college instructors, is how the tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up at the table anymore.
Excuse me? How is this a privacy *violation*? You'd have to choose to voluntarily provide a fingerprint in a public place, and that's a violation? If I were standing on a street corner asking people to volunteer to have their fingerprints matched to the FBI database, would that be a privacy violation as well?
It only took a quick walk through this year's RSA Security Conference to see that IPS is not only real and here to stay, but it is actually working for lots of people out there. (ob. disclaimer - I work for TPTI)
You don't need a superconductor, you just need a transport mechanism for potential energy. So far the best solution we have for that is splitting water into Hydrogen and Oxygen. Now all you've gotta do is deliver teh hydrogen to where it's needed. Nuke power can solve a lot more than just our electricity needs...